Month: May 2017

Two teenagers, including a juvenile, have been arrested for lynching the e-rickshaw driver who had berated them for urinating outside a public toilet. Prime accused Shekhar Kapasia (19), was arrested in Muzaffarnagar. The juvenile was arrested from the Patel Chest area of north Delhi.

Grey, overcast skies since late morning, cool winds and showers in most parts of the city kept temperatures six notches below normal and the met office said there could be more rain in store on Thursday.

Kapil Mishra was allegedly roughed up by AAP MLAs in the Delhi assembly on Wednesday as he was being marshalled out for ‘disrupting’ the proceedings by standing and displaying a banner with allegations of corruption against chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and health minister Satyendar Jain.

Satyendar Jain moved the Delhi high court on Wednesday and sought quashing of tax evasion proceedings against him by the I-T department relating to hawala transactions on the ground that a penal provision invoked against him was not in force when the alleged illegalities were committed.

In a social media post, Aarti Sharma, who lives with eight family members in a 330-sq-ft rented room in Eco Colony, Rohata, claimed that demonetisation struck a blow to their small garment business, pushing them to poverty.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top diplomats from across the Western Hemisphere held an urgent meeting Wednesday aimed at ending Venezuela’s worsening democratic crisis, but struggled to reach consensus about whether foreign nations had any right to intervene in Venezuela’s internal affairs.